A.J. Jacobs: My year of living biblically

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From the TED website: "Speaking at the most recent EG conference, author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically -- following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible."

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Oh man I'd love to *promote this... I just watched this on TED, great talk on how those with and without religion can get along.

Wonderful demonstration that religion, or lack thereof, on it's own does not a bad/good person make, but what you take from it to use in your daily life.

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*beg

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Awesome talk!

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I found this very interesting. I agree with him about the picking and choosing to some extent. However, I believe that there is a difference between eternal spiritual laws and laws that apply to a certain time period. For instance, Christ fulfilled the Law of Moses and there was no longer a need for sacrifices, strict diet codes, etc. Those laws, although matters of morality for the people at the time, were not eternal moral laws. In other words, for the people to break the Law of Moses was a sin then, but is not a sin now.

Another thing is that the Bible has been edited and messed with so many times that it is impossible to take it as the pure word of God. It was written by men and has been mistranslated and corrupted over the years. I believe that the ability to know good from evil is a gift that every sane human being has, and that God has given us the ability to discern which things come from Him, and which things come from man.

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Yeah... before humans started to meddle with it, there was a word of god, from god, available to us all. Damn all journalists, editors and scribes!

Also, since I´m either not sane or lack the gift, I would love to hear examples of things that come From Him, as I couldn´t think of a single thing.

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